Fence-wire fastening



March 1 3, 1928.

v. s. MODONOUGH FENCE WIRE FASTENING Filed April 30, 1926' jz XNVEINTOR ATTORNEY latented Mar. 13,1928. w I r I r i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

Application filed April 30, 1926'. Serial No. 105,826.

This invention relates to fastenings for use Such Openings 12 are formed in pairs at upon fences Which, owing to the construcappropriate distances upon the lengths of tion thereof may be readily and easily apthe respective posts in order that staples plied upon the posts and which may not besuch as indicated at 14: may be driven Within 5 come disengaged from the post upon the the openings 12, which owing to their ppo o deterioration of the latter. sitely disposed relationship will converge Vith the above and other objects in View, outwardly in reverse order, whereby the the invention further includes the following wire 15 wh th r t aight or b bed wi11 be novel features and details otconstruction, firmlly held. i lac upon th fa f the to be hereinafter more fully described, illuso t i t id t l di l t, trated in the accompanying drawing and It is to, be noted that the staples 14 pointed out in the appended claim. when driven, in the manner as previously In the drawing: described andillustrated, will firmly hold Figure 1 is a perspective of a fence-post the wire in place and taut upon the post,

15 With the present invention applied and used and which may not 13 301119 disengaged the.re-' (it) in conjunction therewith; 1 from due to any deterioration of the posts,

Figure 2 is a sectional view through a V owing to the fact that the posts as previously cross sectioned T-shaped post with the described and illustrated are formed of vention applied; metal. The. pointed or pronged ends of the Figure 3 is a g t y Side elevation staples 14: may be struck to disengage the 05 thereof; same from the posts in the instance of tak- Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective of ing down thefence, the upper end of an angle post with the in- The invention is susceptible of various vention applied; changes in its form, proportions and minor Figure 5 is a transverse section taken details of construction, and the right is here- 70 through a cross sectioned angular post with in reserved to makesuch changes as propthe invent-ion applied; 7 1 erly fall within the scope of the appended Figure 6 is a fragmentary side elevation claim. r of the invention as applied upon an angular Having thus described my invention what t I desire to claim as new is Referring to the drawing in detail Where- As a new article of manufacture, a metalin like characters of reference denote correlic fence post having pairs of oppositely spending parts, the reference characters 10 and horizontally disposed openings entering and 11 indicate the usual and conventional the post 1n alignment and formed obliquely forms of: cross sectioned substantially T'- therethrough at spaced intervals along the 80 shaped and angular shaped posts respeclength thereof, and staples having their retively; the post 10 having obliquely and spective arms fitted and driven with n the oppositely and horizontally disposed openopenings whlch cause the arms to diverge ings 12 provided in the face thereof and eX- outwardly 1n opposed directions for retamtending upon the opposite sides of the cenmg lengths of wire upon the post. S5 ter portion thereof, while the post 11 has n testimony whereot I affix'my signature. correspondingly disposed openings 13 arranged in the ofiset portion thereof substan- VICTOR S. MGDONOUGH. tially as illustrated in Figures 2 and 5 of the drawing respectively. 

